Moira Dustin; Nuno Ferreira; Kamran Matin; Mehran Rezaei-Toroghi; and Isabel Soloaga – University of Sussex Does an academic, theoretically framed, multidisciplinary research project have anything to contribute to migration policy and practice in the context of discrimination and violence based on…
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The praxis of research about queer migrant lives: an Iranian case study
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, Iran, LGBTQ, migration, SOGIESC
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
A European language detection software to determine asylum seekers’ country of origin: Questioning the assumptions and implications of the EUAA’s project
Cecilia Manzotti, Doctoral Researcher, School of Law & SCMR, University of Sussex (UK) In 2022, the European Union Asylum Agency (EUAA) reported that seven European Union (EU) member states (Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Denmark, Sweden and Finland) and Switzerland,…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Asylum Seekers & Refugees, European Union Asylum Agency
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research
Solidarity in Europe two years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Dr Rob Sharp, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex It has now been well over two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As of February…
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, participatory methods, solidarity, Ukraine
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
How time reveals hidden power in the refugee camp
Dr Melissa Gatter is Lecturer in International Development (University of Sussex) While a universal experience, the passing of time is not an equal one. For those whose mobility is policed, time becomes more immediately present, almost tangible, as they must…
Not a burden: Somali refugees transform Dollo Ado into an onion export zone
Fekadu Adugna is Project Coordinator at the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. Dollo Ado is a district in south-eastern Ethiopia bordering Somalia to the east…
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Emotions in the fieldwork
Claude Samaha, Lead Researcher at Basmeh & Zeitooneh and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. Resnik argues that ‘an objective researcher (or project, report, or study) is like a judge who attempts to give a fair hearing to both…
Lessons from Cartagena: what can the world learn about migration governance?
Esteban Octavio Scuzarello, is a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute, Italy. His work focuses on forced displacement in South America. The 1970s and 1980s are remembered as turbulent years in Latin America, marked by coup d’états, political persecution,…
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